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Author Topic:   Evidence to expect given a designer
New Cat's Eye
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Message 96 of 373 (644716)
12-20-2011 9:50 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by mike the wiz
12-05-2011 3:24 PM


I'd expect a mechanism
If we propose intelligent design, we have to ask what we should expect to see.
I would expect to see things that we can determine a method for how they were made... that is, some mechanism for the creation.
If we stumbled upon some artifact that looked designed, we'd try to figure out how they made it. Usually, IDists say that you don't have to know how something was made to determine it was designed, which is sorta true, but if we're given something that was designed, I think we'd be able to figure out some of the mechanisms used to build it.
So, assuming that the different kinds of animals were designed, its quite apparent that evolution was the mechanism for creating them. I haven't heard any other way for them to emerge other than magically poofing into existence, which is ridiculous.

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Message 127 of 373 (644878)
12-21-2011 11:11 AM
Reply to: Message 114 by Just being real
12-21-2011 12:52 AM


All DNA of course has highly specified code in the sequence of arrangements of its bases. It utilizes this as the very blue prints for each cell in the construction of the entire living organism.
No offense, but that's just a terrible description of DNA. DNA is nothing like a blueprint. A blueprint is a picture of the final product, DNA is a chemical that causes the production of amino acids into proteins. The DNA doesn't even tell you "put this cell here and that one there" (like blueprint instructions might), it just produced whatever amino acid it must due to the chemisry involved.
We've all heard DNA described as a blueprint, even tho its a terrible analogy, but to use that as an argument for design is fallacious reasoning.

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